tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568619474449091271.post5308250844645815059..comments2023-11-02T04:21:19.463-05:00Comments on 10 centimeters and beyond: Ups and Downs of working in L&DNurse Lochiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07137987823813922532noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8568619474449091271.post-72072121697608036052007-06-15T16:00:00.000-05:002007-06-15T16:00:00.000-05:00My heart breaks to read of the couple that lost th...My heart breaks to read of the couple that lost their baby girl at 35wks. I remember the student nurse that came in during my 2wks stay to help me in the antepatrum floor while we were pregnant with our son Erik. I'm all for learning, so she was present when I had my cerclage placed. And two days later she also happened to be there when we found out we were going to be induced (at 22wks due to an inter-uterine infection) and that our baby wasn't going to make it. She asked me if I wanted her to leave, so my husband and I could go through this alone. But since she had been there for me and she was suppose to be learning, I told her I wanted her to stay, so she did. She had the biggest heart, she stayed with me even though her shift was over to help with my delivery and to care for our son. Her name was Mary, and I will never forget how kind and tender-hearted she was. After I delivered Erik, with tears streaming down her face, she weighed him and helped clean him up. My mom said she stayed with Erik and helped bathe, dress and she held him. It is nurses (and students) like you and Mary that make the tragedy of a loss a little more bearible. The tears may be hard to hold back in those heart-wrenching situations, but don't hold them all back. Bereaved parents NEED the validating that their loss is very real, the pain is very raw, and its ok to grieve. The sympathy and soft hearts that my nurses & doctors had that day really helped in my healing process. I can say, that I KNOW my son was treated with respect and dignity by the staff and all those that cared for me. There's nothing that could've lessened the pain then, but now two years later I take comfort in knowing he was treated with nothing but TLC.<BR/><BR/>As for the woman that made herself go into labor, and didn't come in until 5 days after her water broke... WTF, that's disgusting. What kind of a woman could ever do that to her child?! That's not a woman, that's an animal. UGH, But yet not even animals are that cruel to their babies. Its a shame that what she did, isn't against the law. The pregnancy was viable, yet she intentionally sacrificed a child. It had to be extremely difficult to maintain your professionalism and provide her with care. She's be a patient I wouldn't mind screwing up the epidural on, or "accidently" missing the vein a few times when drawing her blood. (Good thing I'm not in the medical field.) <BR/>But anyway, people like her will have their just punishment if not during her life-time, then when its time to meet the good Lord.Jen, Rich & Joeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05068357961337957475noreply@blogger.com